Top 11 Commonplaceness Quotes
#1. No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.
Anne Truitt
#2. Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.
D.T. Suzuki
#4. Is it possible, after all, that in spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of commonplaceness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim, can not resolve?
Herman Melville
#5. she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought.
Lawrence Durrell
#6. We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place ...
Seymour Hersh
#7. I know that the World is a terrible place, filled with wild animals and evil men and wicked woman.
Pete Hautman
#9. But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.
Mitch Albom
#10. Their lust to win the love of mortals away from God knows no bounds.
Ted Dekker
#11. Countries rush to war thinking it is the quickest, easiest solution to conflict, only to find themselves still entrenched years later, suffering more losses than they expected and asking themselves, bewildered, "How did we get here?" There is no "winning" a war.
Joseph Sebarenzi
